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[dave996]

Guy and Galls,

I need some advise.
I have been asked about plasma screen TV's

There is one PC and someone is wanting to connect 3 plasma tv's to show the same image in an office.
This is all been connected by Cat V cable.

Now obviously some form of junction box would be required.
1/ What box?
2/ Is CatV suitted to this job
3/ Is there a max lenght of cable
4/ Can 3 TV's be connected to one PC
5/ WHY DOES IT NOT WORK!!!!

Cheers in advance
Dave

[ziggi]

Component video over cat 5 - http://svideo.com/500021.html

[ziggi]

actually i'm not sure if that's what you need but the site seems to offer most solutions

[dave996]

Cheers Ziggi

[JPM]

Be interesting to know how a PC pushes video down a Cat5 cable? guess you buy a specific video card that uses Cat5

[dave996]

I think thats where the balun comes in, does it not alter the impeadence from 75 ohm to 120ohm or vice versa! enabling you to use catV

[JPM]

Well Cat5 is a network cable, not video, so you can't directly transmit video signals via a network card, thus maybe needing s specific video card that utilises a Cat5 interface.

You can buy video splitter boxes using standard VGA cables, but you'd be limited to around 10 metres of cable at best I am guessing

[dave996]

Cheers for that JPM.

I'm sure I'll be back in a bit with some more questions

[Mr_S]

The gadget ziggi posted just uses the wiring to send a different signal across it ( bit like the broadband across the mains idea)

If it's a PC display you're sending s-video's no good and it's a VGA splitter you want.

So, you want something like these

http://www.42u.com/video_splitters.htm

http://www.digitaltigers.com/sidecar.shtml

Got any old PC's kicking around? Use this
http://www.maxivista.com/